Archaeological Fieldwork in Estonia 2022, 211–216 Finds from the northern shore of Lake Võrtsjärv Aivar Kriiska and Irina Khrustaleva Tartu Ülikool, ajaloo ja arheoloogia instituut, arheoloogia osakond (University of Tartu, Institute of History and Archaeology, Department of Archaeology), Jakobi 2, 51005 Tartu, Estonia; aivar.kriiska@ut.ee Tartu Ülikool, genoomika instituut, Eesti Biokeskus (University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics, Estonian Biocenter), Riia 23b, 51010 Tartu, Estonia Ville Dreving Meleski Klaasimuuseum (Meleski Museum of Glass), 70304 Meleski, Viljandi County, Estonia INTRODUCTION From the bottom of Lake Võrtsjärv, various items (a stone axe, fragments of clay vessels, iron spearheads, coins, etc.) of different ages (starting from around 1300 BC1) have repeatedly been found. This has mostly occurred during times when the water level of the lake has been lower than usual. The majority of the finds were collected in the summer of 1996 and in November 2015 on the northern shore of Lake Võrtsjärv, close to Vaibla village (Kriiska 1998b; 2016). A significant part of these items has been published already (Kriiska 1998a; Kriiska & Dreving 2016; Tvauri 2014, 206). In this article, we provide a brief overview of the artefacts which were also obtained from the vicinity of Vaibla in November 2022. Additionally, a wooden object which was found there in 2015 (Fig. 1) is published now as well. This was excluded from the article that compiled the contemporary finds (Kriiska & Dreving 2016) because at the time of its writing, the wooden sample was still undergoing dating. Now, there is a suitable opportunity to publish this find along with the result of the radiocarbon dating. WOODEN POLE FOUND IN 2015 Wood is an important material in the context of the finds collected from Lake Võrtsjärv. It has been preserved as handles or parts of handles of several tools (Kriiska & Dreving 2016), and as a rare occurrence, a piece of ash tree had even survived inside the socket of a Middle Bronze Age stone axe (Kriiska 1998a). During fieldwork conducted in 2015, among other finds, a likely 2.35 m long pole, presum- ably made of spruce, was discovered in shallow water on the sand (Fig. 1: 1; Fig. 2: 3). One end of the pole is carved and has a rounded heading (Fig. 2: 1–2). A wood sample taken from the pole was dated using the conventional radiocarbon method at the Laboratory of Isotopic 1 The oldest dated object is a stone axe, with a wooden shaſt fragment found in its socket, the dating obtained from wood was 3060±85 BP (Ua-12770) (Kriiska 1998a, 154).